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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
2 hours 8 minutes2015-06-30
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The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt (1906-75), who caused a stir when she coined a subversive concept, the banality of evil, in her 1963 book on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann (1906-62), held in Israel in 1961, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine.
Cast
![Alison Darcy](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Alison Darcy
Hannah Arendt (voice)
![Richard Bernstein](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Richard Bernstein
Self - Arendt's Friend
![Jerome Kohn](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Jerome Kohn
Self - Arendt's Assistant
![Steven Asheim](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Steven Asheim
Self - Professor
![Aharon Appelfeld](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//AtRiCm7feYmVwmnKtaiL8spQ75i.jpg)
Aharon Appelfeld
Self - Writer
![Leon Botstein](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Leon Botstein
Self - Arendt's Student
![Idith Zertal](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Idith Zertal
Self - Historian
![Ramin Jahanbegloo](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Self - Iranian Dissident
![Gertrude Heidegger](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Gertrude Heidegger
Self - Heidegger's Granddaughter
![Emmanuel Faye](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Emmanuel Faye
Self - Philosopher
![Deborah Lipstadt](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Deborah Lipstadt
Self - Historian
![Judith Butler](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//ijoBAhitgqH8eJ6RR8BNKeGI0zn.jpg)
Judith Butler
Self - Philosopher
![Khaled Furani](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Khaled Furani
Self - Anthropologist
![Yehuda Bauer](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Yehuda Bauer
Self - Historian
![Adi Ophir](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Adi Ophir
Self - Philosopher
![Roger Errera](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//xVlaTKJqExM1RYiYJUK7NEZpvWG.jpg)
Roger Errera
Self - Journalist
![Edna Brocke](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Edna Brocke
Self - Arendt's Niece
![Adolf Eichmann](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//k0l1hA9gumE14umHqMvbOIgUZj1.jpg)
Adolf Eichmann
Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
![Gideon Hausnet](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Gideon Hausnet
Self - Eichmann's Prosecutor (archive footage)
![Hannah Arendt](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//gAetYQHbOy8LUEhK1n00zj6t8wd.jpg)
Hannah Arendt
Self - Political Philosopher (archive footage)
![Adolf Hitler](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//n6f81IUSes1a8jTzUIF7rJ5zZnP.jpg)
Adolf Hitler
Self - Politician (archive footage)
![Hans Jonas](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Hans Jonas
Self - Arendt's Friend (archive footage)
![Hermann Göring](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//srlxYR4WbfBH4KpoBptWSRduqTO.jpg)
Hermann Göring
Self - Politician (archive footage)
![Otto Ohlendorf](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Otto Ohlendorf
Self - Nazi War Criminal (archive footage)
![Martin Heidegger](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)